Friday, July 29, 2016

New videos available for GV Stratus version 4.8

Over on our Youtube channel we have posted some videos to show the great new features in our latest release, 4.8

Subjects include new features in the Stratus application to improve user experience, improved proxy support, new archive integration and the ability to set permissions on metadata fields, markers and segments.

Please head to grassvalleylive to find all the latest GV videos, or if you just want a playlist of 4.8 videos please click here.

Happy watching!

Alex

For any question concerning this subject contact alex.lakey@grassvalley.com or philip.wu@grassvalley.com

Thursday, May 26, 2016

The biggest event of the broadcast industry in South East Asia is here! Faithful to its annual date, Broadcast Asia 2016 is taking place in Singapore from Tuesday 31 May and for 4 days and Grass Valley will be showcasing our latest products and solutions.

Of course, the latest release of GV STRATUS, v4.5.2 will be at the show and we have some of the best demonstrators in town ready to answer all your questions. We will show GV STRATUS integration with newsroom systems, its powerful workflow rules, live production workflows with Dyno S, how GV STRATUS can help with digital publishing workflows and much more.

We love shouting out about our customers and how they use GV STRATUS successfully and today we're proud to talk about TV Cultura in Brazil, who use the Grass Valley solutions in innovative ways. Read all about it on the case study here:

In their own words: “The more we can automate processes, the more we can save in costs and direct our
resources to other areas. By going with GV STRATUS, we’re getting improved connectivity
and a future-ready application that helps us to reduce operational costs and create a
more agile production environment.”
Gilvani Moletta, Director of Engineering and Technology, TV Cultura

For any question concerning this subject contact beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Hi all! With GV STRATUS 4.5 we introduced to powerful time-saving features: publishing video and metadata to YouTube and exporting native mp4 proxy video (publish to the web without the need to transcode).

We've had multiple requests to show how this works, so we've recorded this video to show you how this works... enjoy!

Questions and feedback, get in touch: beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Hi dear readers... I've been very glad to receive a few emails recently from followers with positive feedback and I wanted to thank you all for reading our blog. It is great to know that it provides some help and support to our GV STRATUS users!

We have talked about our field / remote editing workflows before on our blog. You can check our entries here and here.

Today we have a new video demonstration talking about the process of editing in the field with a laptop running EDIUS (and if needed, GV STRATUS) and coming back to the production facility. Often our users are unclear as to how they can simply bring back their field edits and conform / export content to the GV STRATUS production system. It is actually pretty simple, so please take a look...

So you can see that not only the tools and user interfaces do not change at all whether you're in the field or back in the office, but the actual process of reconnecting to the production network is pretty seamless.

Do contact us if you have any questions: beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Hope everyone travelled well and has recovered from a very interesting NAB 2016. We wanted to take the opportunity to highlight one of our star features recently released with GV STRATUS 4.5 and EDIUS 8, both with the low resolution (EDIUS XS) and high resolution (EDIUS Workgroup) flavours.

We prepared a video tutorial to walk you through this essential functionality... Enjoy!

Thursday, April 21, 2016

So we made it to the last day of NAB 2016 and after a fantastic show so far, we wanted to close this series of posts with one of the most requested and useful new features on GV STRATUS 4.5, together with EDIUS 8: Project Management for EDIUS.

With this functionality, all EDIUS projects created when logged-on to GV STRATUS, are automatically checked-in to a new node on the GV STRATUS folder tree:

Once projects and sequences are part of the GV STRATUS directory, it is possible to search for them with GV STRATUS's powerful search capabilities. Users can open the project and review the sequence metadata on the GV STRATUS object inspector, and see the source clips being used on each sequence.

Further, as well as locating projects and sequences easily (in a busy facility this will save a lot of time navigating for content), sharing EDIUS projects via GV STRATUS allows users to open sequences that are being edited by other users and continue editing in their own project without affecting the original sequence. Equally, they can access other editor's projects (as read-only) and use their source material. These are excellent tools for collaborative workflows, where multiple users need to work on the same material (one editor may be preparing promos, another one is editing bumpers, and a third one is preparing the full edited programme, for example).

And there's more, GV STRATUS protects content from EDIUS projects from being deleted. For as long as source clips are still checked-in as part of an EDIUS project within GV STRATUS, they are protected against deletion until the project and sequence in question are removed from GV STRATUS.

This is just the first phase of our EDIUS Project Management capabilities within GV STRATUS. We will be adding further functionality on upcoming releases, so stay tuned for more announcements.

To see the EDIUS project management features in action, come and see us at the Grass Valley booth SL106. Here's a video preview:

Have a great last day of the show and safe travels onwards!

For questions or comments, contact beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

We're half-way through the show and with more news to uncover. We have been working closely with our partners at Anvato to offer you a tightly integrated solution for Digital Media Publishing using GV STRATUS.

One of the key strengths of GV STRATUS is its comprehensive rules and
workflow engine. Using rules to automate media delivery can dramatically
speed up your production. Combine this with a commitment to open
architecture that allows tight integration with third-party service providers,
and you can quickly and easily build new solutions for different applications.
By partnering with Anvato, you can significantly enhance your live streaming
and VOD capabilities by monetizing digital delivery.

First, GV STRATUS adds segment information to the MOS rundown using its MOS-based
segmentation template. Then, Grass Valley's Ignite automated production system inserts markers at
the beginning and end of each segment and into the SDI stream out of the K2 Summit.
This live stream is then fed into the cloud-based Anvato platform, where it can subsequently
be repurposed in a number of ways, including commercial insertion and replacement. Most
importantly, Anvato can read our segment markers to automatically publish to video-on-demand
(VOD), or even to Facebook or Twitter, without any further transcoding.

More details available here and of course, at the show floor, on the Grass Valley booth SL106. See you there!

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Hello NAB visitors... how are you enjoying the show so far? After an excellent first day, we are eager to meet you at our booth SL106 and give you a full demo of our latest GV STRATUS 4.5.

One of the new capabilities we are offering from this month is integration with Grass Valley's K2 Central TX high performance, shared storage for Production and Playout. Keep all your storage options flexible, from production to playout and benefit from the full range of GV STRATUS asset management and workflow tools.

Of course, you can edit-in-place on K2 Central with Grass Valley's non-linear editor, EDIUS, both in proxy and high resolution. All of the user permissions and metadata flexibility offered with GV STRATUS is now available with K2 Central TX.

And it is certainly possible to combine different types of K2 storage under the same GV STRATUS asset management system. You can have a K2 Central TX and a K2 SAN system, or, depending on your workflow, multiple K2 Solos and/or standalone storage Summits.

K2 Central TX is ideal for quick turn-around production and playout environments, including sports workflows. And now combined with the power of GV STRATUS, for example with the revamped Advanced Logging tool (on the left here) you can enjoy greater flexibility and better collaborative workflows.

Those who work in news can consider our newly-launched News Bundles that now include K2 Central TX as production and playout storage, with GV STRATUS and EDIUS , offering a neat, compact and highly affordable solution. More details here.

You can find out more about our K2 Central TX product range on our website. And of course, come and see it at NAB, booth SL106.

Monday, April 18, 2016

Welcome to NAB 2016!! Day 1 is finally here and the show opens, with the Grass Valley booth ready to welcome our visitors and partners in the South Hall, booth SL106.

As well as showing GV STRATUS at our main booth, we happy to work for the second year running with our colleagues at SGL Broadcast and we have a demonstration pod with a full GV STRATUS and K2 Solo system, integrated with FlashNet.

At SGL's booth, SL5306, just a few steps away from Grass Valley's main booth, we're showing our latest GV STRATUS 4.5 fully integrated with SGL FlashNet, as well as new integration features, such as working with FlashNet Infinity.

And not only we will have a full-time GV STRATUS expert at the SGL booth, but we are doing two stage presentations so you can get the full breadth of our collaboration and follow-up with a 1-2-1 demo afterwards. To book your slot, please go to the SGL website.

We look forward to seeing you at the Grass Valley booth and the SGL booth this NAB! Have a great day!

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Faithful to our yearly date with our users and industry partners, the GV STRATUS team will be at NAB 2016. Come to see us at the Las Vegas Convention Centre, South Hall. Our booth is SL106.

Systems set up is going smoothly and we're up and rearing to go! We have a lot to show you, with new partner integrations, user-friendly functionality, workflows and features, as well as an expert team at hand ready to answer all your GV STRATUS questions.

Contact us to book a demo slot, or drop by to see all the latest functionality we're offering with GV STRATUS 4.5...

Keep an eye on our blog for daily updates, as we will be publishing a new entry with interesting new from the show floor starting next Monday 18th April and for the duration of the show.

When it comes to sending content from the production environment to remote facilities, GV STRATUS offers a wide range of possibilities

In a 3-part series we are covering various case studies, and we already showed you on a previous post (Multisite and remote workflows with GV STRATUS) how to share content between multiple GV STRATUS sites, what we call MULTISITE sharing. Part 2 covered Sending video from GV STRATUS to a remote file share.

Finally, here in part 3, we show you how you send content from your GV STRATUS / K2 production facility to other locations where they may have a K2 device (K2 SAN, Summit, Classic or Solo) but without GV STRATUS being part of their installation.

In this video, we provide the example of sending from a GV STRATUS production facility located in Singapore, over to a K2 Solo server located in our offices in Sydney.

For any question concerning this subject contact beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Friday, April 8, 2016

Hi all, today we would like to share with you a video tutorial going through the steps needed to configure the Avid iNews Newsroom Computer System to work together with GV STRATUS.

As well as this tutorial, you can follow the detailed steps as described on our comprehensive GV STRATUS Topic Library.

GV STRATUS integration within iNews, as well as with a wide range of other NRCS (ENPS, Octopus, Annova Open Media, Ross Inception, NCIS....) provides the full toolset and flexibility to manage your media assets, basic editing, approving, sending to playout, etc that you require for your news production workflows. For details on how to use iNews with GV STRATUS, you can check our Topic Library here.

And whilst we have your attention, don't forget to check back in next week, as we will be ramping up for the NAB 2016 show in Las Vegas and we will be introducing new GV STRATUS features and functionality both at the show floor and here at our blog. We look forward to seeing you in Vegas!

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

We are ramping up to NAB and getting all our systems ready! Amongst many of the new features that we will show during the event, our integration with Dejero will help you see how GV STRATUS is bringing the field closer to the production facility: less button clicks, less procedures, quicker access, more creativity!

Read all about it on our press release and come and see it at the show. We are at booth S106.

Any questions or to book a demo at NAB, contact me! beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Our latest release of GV STRATUS includes seamless integration to send content, either manually or with automatic rules, from K2 storage to Avid ISIS/Interplay. Even all of the GV STRATUS metadata is passed through.

Sunday, February 14, 2016

We are ecstatic to celebrate that we have sold more than 200 GV STRATUS systems worldwide since it was first launched in September 2011. From New Zealand to Mexico, Japan to Spain, Ethiopia to Canada, we have systems in every continent and from major capital cities to remote corners of the world.

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Hi again! With our new release of GV STRATUS, version 4.5 we have introduced lots of new features, but we have also listened to our user's feedback and introduced 600+ improvements on the user interface, general availability and performance, back-end processes and tools.

One example is the Advanced Logger, which has been part of GV STRATUS from day 1 and provides excellent live logging and cataloging tools to our users, for sports, current affairs, news and reality TV logging, with the ability to customise your own buttons and panels.

Here's our previous blog entry on what the Advanced Logger used to look like and how it could be used (click here). After hearing from our users how the Logger could be even more useful to them, we made many improvements and showed a peek-preview during last IBC (see here).

Our colleague Alex Lakey has now done a video demonstration to show you all the improvements and new functions of the Advanced Logger. Check it out!

We'll be back for more soon with more news about GV STRATUS 4.5!

For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Our new GV STRATUS v4.5 release is coming out this week and it's packed-full of new features. We want to introduce you to some of the highlights over the next few weeks, and for starters today, here's a great video describing the new Scheduled Transfers tool, courtesy of our colleague Alex Lakey.

Keep an eye on our blog pages for more new GV STRATUS 4.5 features coming soon!
If you'd like to know more about GV STRATUS 4.5, or would like to plan an upgrade, contact your GV representative or drop us an email.

For any question concerning this subject contact beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

As you know, at GV we are always working on keeping our product offerings open and GV STRATUS in particular integrates with a long list of third party devices, services and tools.

We have been working closely with ROSS, and are happy to announce that we have added their Inception Newsroom Computer System to our existing list of integrated NRCS (you can already use GV STRATUS with Octopus, ENPS, iNews, Open Media, NCIS and Nishi-Com).

As with all our previous NRCS integrations, you can now benefit from the full power and feature-set of GV STRATUS, including all of its tools (and that means ALL!) within the Inception user interface. The workflow is similar to that we have with other NRCS systems, whereby you can create MOS placeholders in advance within the rundown, see status of your video assets (showing ready-to-air as soon as content starts arriving in the playout server), preview live feeds without leaving your newsroom application, and all other goodies that GV STRATUS has to offer.

We are pleased to keep adding more partners to our existing long list, and to offer you, our users, flexibility when it comes to integrating the video production system with the NRCS of your choice.

For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

At IBC this year we announced the availability of system bundles offering the full power of GV STRATUS news production functionality for smaller size operations. The offering provides remote field editing and proxy streaming/editing even using high latency networks.

With our new news bundles, producers can get stories to air faster giving them the opportunity to engage viewers faster than ever before, with compelling reporting and fully edited, ready-to-air packages.

Bundling our solutions makes them more cost effective and easier to implement.GV STRATUS Newsroom Bundles are available in two configurations. Both systems support up to 15 users/editors and they differ only in terms of storage capacity and I/O.

You can find out more on our website. To discuss a bundle for your facility, please contact your Grass Valley representative or drop us a mail. For any question concerning this subject contact regis.andre@grassvalley.com or beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Monday, September 14, 2015

Last day of another fun IBC! Over the past few days we've been telling you about a whole range of new features and functionality that we are adding to GV STRATUS. And as well as new additions, we constantly work on improving and enhancing existing tools taking on board our users' feedback.

We have put a lot of work lately on the GV STRATUS Advanced Logging Panel. For starters, button panels and customised buttons can now be easily managed from the asset list. The logging panel is now a whole Logging Suite, highly customisable and full of nice new functionality.

Buttons can be rearranged, resized and repositioned in such a way that they can mimic a specific formation, for example for a soccer team. And you can add a background picture to help you get closer to the action and log live events more efficiently.

All this new functionality, coupled to the recently-introduced ability to send buttons and whole panels via GV STRATUS Messenger, makes it a lot easier for operators to share their work and save time amongst logging and production teams.The new and improved Advanced Logger is the ideal tool to log all sorts of live events, from sports to press conferences, from reality TV to political debates and from musical concerts to religious congregations. You name it, we provide you with the tools.

Do contact us if you would like a detailed demonstration. For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Good day from the IBC show floor! We've had an exciting and busy weekend, with our booth being chock-a-block with visitors, clients, partners and friends. See for yourself:

We start the week telling you about a new tool that we are introducing on the already very flexible GV STRATUS tool set: the Scheduled Transfer tool.

You'll see it looks similar to the Ingest Scheduler, and that makes it intuitive and within minutes you'll know how to use it. What is great about the new Scheduled Transfer tool is that it lets you automate daily, routine tasks, freeing you up to take care of more creative tasks. It allows you to schedule asset transfers in advance between K2 bins or onto an external storage location. So if you're recording that all-important live event, and you need to have a specific section of it transferred out to an editor, or to an external customer, or simply send to the playout server, just schedule and forget!

Combined with the GV STRATUS' existing asset management capabilities, you have the flexibility to add metadata, create workflow rules that can archive, notify users, transcode, etc, as soon as the live event has started to transfer.

We will be happy to give you a full demonstration at our IBC booth 1.D11. See you there!

For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Saturday, September 12, 2015

This year's IBC is well underway and we are thrilled to uncover even more exciting and useful new features with our next release of GV STRATUS.

Come by Hall 1.D11 to the Grass Valley booth, and see for yourself how fast and easy we have made it for you to publish directly to YouTube from the GV STRATUS client!

It's a simple as creating a workflow rule on our GV STRATUS Control Panel, where you enter the credentials of your YouTube account. This is totally invisible to all users, and only system administrators need to access this information (and only one time during set up). Once this is done, users simply need to check a metadata field to send to YouTube, they can monitor the transfer from within their GV STRATUS seat....

And as for the video quality and format, you can choose to transcode using one of our well integrated 3rd party transcode engines (again, this is transparent to the user and it just happens in the background, as it's part of the rule set up), or even faster and better, you can choose to send the GV STRATUS natively created proxy (which we will soon offer in three different resolutions to suit varying workflow needs), so that transcoding is not needed and the upload to YouTube can be lightning fast!

Come and learn more at our booth this IBC!

For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Friday, September 11, 2015

Hello IBC-ers, day 2 of the show and we are uncovering another great new feature to be released with our next version of GV STRATUS: EDIUS Project Templates. This will save you time and effort for editing elements which always follow the same format in terms of number of editing layers, audio, bumpers, logos, overlays, effects, etc. For example, you edit the same promo for 5 different days of the week, and all that changes is the overlay text. Or you just need to change the voice over for different languages.

Or perhaps you always use the same style for your "Coming up next" news teasers and you just need to fill in the video track. That's where Project Templates with our latest versions of EDIUS and GV STRATUS will come in extremely handy. Create the template, save and reuse as many times as you wish without having to redo all the work.

Thursday, September 10, 2015

We first launched GV STRATUS at IBC 4 years ago. We are proud to now offer you a product that is feature-rich, solid and flexible. We felt was time to refresh the user experience, though, so we have modernised our user interface. We can't wait for you to come and see it at IBC 2015!

We have new icons, a new animated splash screen and a whole set of usability improvements. Here's just a brief mention of some of the changes:

Better use of the screen real state: more assets can be displayed, space between tabs and panels is better used, etc.

Easier to expand borders, drag panels, scroll through lists....

Thumbnails can be resized by simply expanding the column size

Vast improvements to the Inspector Video Player: overlays can be moved, you can drag mar in/out points, you can zoom in the timeline to better access markers!

Full screen viewer now shows transport controls and the marker timeline (which again, can be zoomed!)

And many more!

Here's a peek preview:

We made these enhancements after listening to constructive feedback from you, our users, so we thank you for your input and support in helping us make GV STRATUS an even greater production tool!

Do come by our IBC booth 1.D11 to learn more about our brand-spanking new GV STRATUS user interface!

For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Grass Valley is coming to Amsterdam for our annual IBC attendance and we are excited to unveil our GV STRATUS new look! You don't want to miss on a whole st of exciting new features that we will be unveiling throughout the show. You can have a peek preview of our next major release coming out a few weeks after the show! Drop by our booth, or even better, contact us to secure a demo slot.

Do keep coming back to this blog, as we will be writing a new entry each day of the show telling you about a new and exciting new feature!

See you in Amsterdam!

For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com

Sunday, August 16, 2015

As part of a series on MAM and its evolution, The Broadcast Bridge has just published an article discussing how Media Asset Management systems have progressed until today and where we think they are heading to.... A very current topic, specially in the light of content providers' requirements to publish to a variety of platforms.

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Check out how GV STRATUS provide flexible, efficient and powerful tools for fast-paced live sports production: from editing while ingesting, logging and marking highlights with a quick on-air turnaround to creating custom metadata, our production systems are used worldwide to cover live sporting events, large and small.

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

As you know, GV STRATUS integrates with most market leading non-linear editors. To provide a good overall picture of the integrated features supported by each of the main editors, we have prepared this Comparison Sheet. You'll be able to compare at a glance how GV STRATUS integrates with our very own EDIUS, Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Avid Media Composer.

You can read and download the comparison sheet from our Grass Valley website.

Keep calm and edit on!

For any question concerning this subject contact
regis.andre@grassvalley.com or
beatriz.alonso-martinez@grassvalley.com